Now that we have those 2 points very clear expressed: that he loves life, women, money, pleasures and that he can be rather aggressive, dominating person with moments of confusion we can now try to understand what happened on 14 May 2011. We can see in the chart below the transits (exterior chart) for Saturday 14 May 2011 applied to Dominique Strauss-Kahn chart (interior chart):

 

 

The important transits for our analyze are:

a) Mars in conjunction with the natal Sun: conflict, social life problems, too much courage, aggression, strong desires;

b) Jupiter, Mercury and Venus in conjunction with natal Mars: desires, initiative, courage, "opportunities", to believe/to act like you have right and everybody agrees with you, overall an "inflated" Mars which gave that aggressive behaviour;

c) Uranus and Lilith in conjunction with natal Moon. I think that is the weakest position because:

    - the natal position of the Moon is not too good being in the sign of Mars, the ruler of the 12th house and with the aspects we saw earlier;

    - the transit of Lilith activates a natal predisposition, because the natal Moon is in conjunction with Lilith;

    - Uranus with the Moon is a pretty bad aspect and can bring: sudden changes, emotional turmoil, incidents involving women and family, emotional impulsiveness, problems at home, strange/sudden changes of mood and other kind of "surprises" related with family, women, home. When we talk about a public person, the Moon also represent the popularity.

d) Saturn at 11 degree Libra is in conjunction with Neptune and in opposition with the midpoint Moon/Mars putting pressure on the aspect between Moon/Mars/Neptune. So, after a licentious Moon and an over confident Mars which act in an undisciplined manner, now we see that Saturn in Libra in aspect with that position bring order or a situation where he needs to respond to law, to respond for his acts, to confront his desires with the reality. I think it describes very well what happened.

e) Moon at 15 degree in Libra in the time when the aggression happened shows that we are analyzing the right aspects on the chart. It is exactly in opposition with the midpoint between natal Moon and Mars (15 Aries), in conjunction with natal Neptune and Saturn in transit.

f) Pluto at 7 degree in Capricorn is another planet which makes a bad aspect with the whole configuration and can bring a fall from position.  

Conclusion. This is an example of how astrology works, because the whole story can be seen pretty easily in my opinion from the transits. Uranus and Lilith on the Moon, Mars on the Sun, Saturn on Neptune in opposition with Moon/Mars midpoint, Pluto square Moon, all play their role and describe a moment when the natal position of Mars, Moon, Neptune and Lilith showed her weakness.    

Sources:

astro.com/astro-databank

nypost.com

guardian.co.uk

imf.org